re: OJ Simpson: Made in America 30 for 30

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ETA: Another point that often gets looked over are the shoes. It originally wasn't a big topic during the criminal trial because they could never prove Simpson owned a pair of the rare shoes. But eventually a single picture surfaced which Cochran claimed could easily have been doctored since the start of the trial. Once the criminal trial was over, many more pics were found of him wearing the shoes. So it became a big deal in the civil case where they have footage of him claiming not to own a pair yet multiple pics with him in them.

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I still believe that if the shoe pictures had turned up during the criminal trial, he may have been convicted. So few were sold in the US. Others will disagree.

In his civil deposition he denied owning those "ugly arse shoes". That sealed the deal, though the burden of proof was obviously substantially lower.